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The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #PFIZER: Ireland is set to receive over 500,000 additional doses of the BioNtech/Pfizer vaccine over the next three months as part of a wider EU agreement. 

2. #DENMARK: The Danish Health Authority has announced that it will no longer use the AstraZeneca vaccine, in a European first. 

3. #VACCINE: Almost one in five people in Ireland over the age of 16 has been given a dose of a vaccine against Covid-19.

4. #MOTHER AND BABY: Inquests must be carried out into all deaths at mother and baby homes and similar inquisitions, the Oireachtas Children’s Committee has heard.

5. #SHOOTING: Gardaí in Dublin are investigating after a gun was fired at a house in the south of the city yesterday.

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